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22 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Google in January: "“We have frozen all NetPAC political contributions while we review and reassess its policies following last week’s deeply troubling events"

Google in February: Screenshot of Google's $5000 donation to "Promoting Our
I guess the review went well
The "Promoting Our Republican Team PAC" made a $10,000 maximum donation to Trump in 2020, and gave money to two senators and six congressmen who voted to overturn the Presidential election. So I'm kind of curious about the rigors of Google's NetPAC's review process.
What's interesting to me is how much this donation humiliates Google's employees. Obviously the company's fate doesn't hinge on making a $5000 donation to a random Republican PAC. But they did it anyway, in the most public way possible, right after promising to review and reflect

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